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Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley


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  • Willow
  • Willow review by Simes69 from Sevenoaks
    Rated - 3.0 stars Don't confuse this with Legend 4 September 2004
    ...lmer plays a bragging swordsman (evidently based on Han Solo in Star Wars), and Joanne Whalley plays the eveil Queens martial daughter. The kids will probably like this film...   Read customer review
  • Before You Go
  • Before You Go review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 1.0 stars Atrocious! 2 May 2004
    ... One star for Patricia Hodge playing against type to great effect, and possibly Joanne Whalley who somehow manages to be believable against all the odds (their scenes are the...   Read customer review
  • 44 Inch Chest
  • 44 Inch Chest review by citizenk from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Right tasty geezers 18 February 2010
    ... first twenty minutes,which is a real shame.Tom Wilkinson,John Hurt,Ian McShane,Joanne Whalley,and Ray Winstone are all better than this,the script is at turns,risible,sixth ...   Read customer review

Joanne Whalley - filmography


  • Twixt (2011)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Bruce Dern,  Elle Fanning
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 1 member
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  • The Good Father on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Jim Broadbent,  Harriet Walter
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hooper (Anthony Hopkins) is a man seething with anger. His wife (Harriet Walter) has divorced him. He is permitted one day a week with his child. Fifteen years ago, he was an outspoken advocate of women's liberation, and now, he feels, he is a victim of the women's movement - a man without rights. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 191 members
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  • 44 Inch Chest on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  John Hurt,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British hardman Ray Winstone (THE DEPARTED, SCUM) reunites with SEXY BEAST screenwriters Louise Mellis and David Scinto for this intriguing gangland thriller in which a scorned husband enlists his friends in a plan to kidnap the lover of his adulteress wife.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 13,974 members
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  • Diverted on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Shawn Ashmore,  David Suchet,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Alex Chapple
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 356 members
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  • 44 Inch Chest - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  John Hurt,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ray Winstone (NIL BY MOUTH), Ian McShane (TV’s DEADWOOD), John Hurt (THE ELEPHANT MAN), Tom Wilkinson (MICHAEL CLAYTON), Stephen Dillane (WELCOME TO SARYJEVO), and Joanne Whalley (SCANDAL) star in first-time feature filmmaker Malcolm Venville's darkly comic tale of a man who rallies his friends in ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 5,079 members
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  • Flood - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Jessalyn Gilsig,  Tom Hardy,  David Suchet
    Director: Tony Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When the rising water levels combine with a deadly tidal wave, the Thames Barrier is powerless to defeat of flood of biblical proportions. With the lives of millions in the balance, a group of experts are called upon to deliver London from total devestation.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 526 members
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  • Played on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Imran Ahktar,  George Berg,  Patrick Bergin
    Director: Sean Stanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After taking the fall for a heist gone wrong, thief-for-hire Ray Burns is back on the streets. Looking to settle the score, he must get back in the game one last time to take down his enemies. In this gritty look at London's criminal underground, Ray learns the hard way not to get "Played".
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 186 members
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  • The Virgin Queen (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  Tom Hardy,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Coky Giedroyc
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    From teenage princess to accomplished queen, forever torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of Elizabeth I is exposed in lavish and spectacular style in The Virgin Queen. Anne-Marie Duff stars as the enigmatic 'Virgin Queen' in this spellbinding drama that portrays the full sweep of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,243 members
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  • 40 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugo Speer,  Mark Benton,  Vincent Regan
    Director: David Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the pen of Bryan Elsley (SKINS, THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO BECOMING A ROCK STAR) 40 is a provocative three-part drama about sex, secrets and growing old disgracefully. When seven school friends meet up on the eve of the their 40th birthdays, they find that some have more in common than just ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 84 members
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  • Before You Go on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Julie Walters,  John Hannah,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Julie Walters, Joanne Whalley and Victoria Hamilton play three sisters who are reunited for the funeral of their mother. Predictably this reunion sees their lifelong problems, grudges and secrets come to the fore in amongst the grief before the inevitable forgiveness.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 756 members
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  • The Guilty (2000)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Devon Sawa,  Gabrielle Anwar
    Director: Anthony Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Defense lawyer and all-around sleaze Callum Crane (Bill Pullman) has a nice wife (Joanne Whalley), two daughters by his wife's first marriage, and an obscenely perfect house. He also has a drinking problem and a penchant for sexual assault. The second proclivity is on ample display when Crane meets ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 224 members
    Due for release on 18th June 2012
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  • A Good Man in Africa (1994)
    Starring: Colin Friels,  Joanne Whalley,  Sean Connery
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 6 members
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  • Scarlett (1994)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Timothy Dalton,  Barbara Barrie
    Director: John Erman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND in which Scarlett (played by the lovely Joanne Whalley of SCANDAL and WILLOW) refuses to accept Rhett's rejection and travels to Charleston to win him back. Unable to change his mind, she travels to Ireland, stirring up London society, and vowing never to reveal to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 35 members
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  • Storyville (1992)
    Starring: James Spader,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Mark Frost
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 19 members
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  • Shattered (1991)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Bob Hoskins,  Greta Scacchi
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 41 members
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  • Navy Seals on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Michael Biehn,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Navy Seal combat unit is sent into the Middle East to rescue a US Navy helicopter crew who are being held captive. Whilst freeing the hostages a cache of Stinger missiles are discovered and on return to the USA a further operation is launched to destroy the missile threat.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,600 member
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  • Kill Me Again on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Michael Madsen,  Jonathan Gries
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The double crosses begin early when Fay knocks out her boyfriend and runs off with the money they stole from the Mob. She hires Jack to fake her death, but when Fay skips out on him too, he pursues her, setting himself up against the law, her ex-boyfriend and the Mob.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 355 members
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  • The Big Man on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Joanne Whalley,  Billy Connolly
    Director: David Leland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An unemployed Glaswegian miner is forced into bare-knuckle fighting to support his family. He finds himself in a nightmare world of drugs and crooks but prepares to turn the tables on the chief mobster, Matt Mason.....
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 437 members
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  • Scandal on DVD (1989)
    Starring: John Hurt,  Joanne Whalley,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 816 members
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  • Willow on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Warwick Davis,  Val Kilmer,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a story by STAR WARS creator George Lucas, WILLOW is director Ron Howard's fantasy world of medieval adventure. WILLOW stars Val Kilmer as Madmartigan, a swashbuckling warrior, and Warwick Davis as the title character. In a mythical kingdom, the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 15,166 members
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  • No Surrender on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Michael Angelis,  Michael Angelis,  Avis Bunnage
    Director: Peter Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comical situations abound when three busloads of pensioners arrive at a seedy nightclub in Liverpool to celebrate New Year's Eve. Rock singer Elvis Costello appears in the role of an inept magician.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 52 members
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  • A Christmas Carol - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Frank Finlay,  Susannah York
    Director: Clive Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A musical adaptation of the book by Charles Dickens about an old miser called 'Scrooge', who is visited by the ghosts of his old partners and the ghosts of 'Christmas Past, Present and Future', in the hope that he will change his ways.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 21 members
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  • A Kind Of Loving - The Complete Series (1982)
    Starring: Clive Wood,  Robert Keegan,  Joanne Whalley
    Director: none
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The ten-part drama series A KIND OF LOVING is set in Yorkshire and London during the 1950s and 1960s. The action gets under way in 1957, when Vic Brown (Clive Wood), the headstrong son of a West Riding minister (John Keegan), begins what he regards to be a casual affair with Ingrid Rothwell (Joanne ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 8 members
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Joanne Whalley facts

5 most recent films

Twixt - 4.5 stars
The Good Father - 2.0 stars
44 Inch Chest - 2.5 stars
Diverted - 3.0 stars
44 Inch Chest - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Virgin Queen - 3.5 stars
A Christmas Carol - 3.5 stars
Willow - 3.5 stars
Scandal - 3.5 stars
The Big Man - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Good Man in Africa - 1.5 stars
To Kill a Priest - 2.0 stars
Storyville - 2.5 stars
A Kind Of Loving - The Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Scarlett - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Hardy - 4 times - show films
Val Kilmer - 4 times - show films
Dexter Fletcher - 3 times - show films
David Suchet - 3 times - show films
Anne-Marie Duff - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Malcolm Venville - 3 times - show films
Coky Giedroyc - 3 times - show films
Clive Donner - 2 times - show films
Yves Simoneau - 2 times - show films
Anthony Walker - 2 times - show films